He jumped on a parachute to celebrate his birthday but a flaw left his paraplegic

Luisa María Jansasoy Peña wanted to celebrate her 31st birthday with something special. Tired of the typical routine of their festivities, the Colombian woman thought that a little adrenaline would not be bad. So it 's that he decided to do something risky and unforgettable: jump on a parachute. Without knowing, he had just made one of the worst decisions of his life.

On Sunday, February 3, Luisa María – accompanied by her husband – and a friend went to the outskirts of Palmira, a town in the Valle del Cauca department located 30 kilometers from Cali, to jump out of town. a plane. An instructor from Halcones Paracaidismo Cali was waiting for them to guide them with the initial jump.

A few minutes later, they took off in a small plane. Luisa María's husband followed everything that was happening from below. "After 20 minutes of flight, they launched themselves while they were just above the place where we were.It was Luisa María with her instructor first, then she became her friend. But in a moment you started to see a big difference in speed of two parachutes, "said Óscar Taborda, Luisa's partner, in an interview with the local site 90 minutes.

What Oscar really saw was a serious problem. The fall was normal until the middle of the road, but the instructor who accompanied Luisa María had to open the emergency parachute – because the other had got tangled – but did not deploy completely. he came at a great speed.

With the parachute open in the middle, Luisa María fell to the ground and fractured the L1 vertebra. "At that moment, she felt terrible pain and immediately stopped feeling her legs," Oscar added. The 31-year-old woman, according to local media, he was paraplegic.

The legal representative of Halcones Paracaidismo Cali, Alberto Salazar, raised the issue in 90 minutes"This is the first time in 20 years that an incident of this type has occurred, we are conducting the entire claim process with the insurer. The documentation is all day"he said.

At the same time, Colombian police authorities are investigating this event to determine who were responsible from what happened to Luisa María.